Topic: Russia invades Georgia over disputed South Ossetia region (Read 6734 times)

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except no one was saying anything about LONG LIVE AMERICA or whatever. you just seem to find a way in every topic to insert some HEH CAPITALIST AMERICANS... TYPICAL AMERICAN RESPONSE or some reference to marx/socialism/class warfare/etc

actually, i havent posted in any political thread whatsoever in a long time. honestly, i think you are more annoyed about the content of my opinions because its not like i make many of them. its pretty gay you try to discredit people's opinions with "heh one-noted propaganda" rather than counter it.


and to be honest, i dont think "heh americans are bad (capitalists)", i think that the posts here are very american and honestly its pretty evident!  mexicans and  most of the world that isnt party of the west are not as obviously anti-russian and anti-chinese as americans.  besides the whole world is capitalist, not just america.
Last Edit: August 11, 2008, 04:52:29 am by Marmot
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actually, i havent posted in any political thread whatsoever in a long time. honestly, i think you are more annoyed about the content of my opinions because its not like i always make political posts.

and to be honest, i dont think "heh americans are bad (capitalists)", i think that the posts here are very american and honestly its pretty evident!  mexicans are not as obviously anti-russian and anti-chinese as americans.  besides the whole world is capitalist, not just america.

i'm actually not annoyed with the context of your opinions because i largely agree with them! basically reading posts that summarize as WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE in every semi relative topic is very annoying
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so what do you wanted me to say? that i cheerlead a side as everybody else because that obviously isnt propaganda? it sounds to you propaganda because i come from a very different angle than most people here. i am simply stating that i think this war is terrible and that its not in the interest of most people.
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workers of the world unite!

That’s right, you have the young gaming with the old(er), white people gaming with black people, men and women, Asian countries gaming with the EU, North Americans gaming with South Americans. Much like world sporting events like the Wolrd Cup, or the Olympics will bring together different nations in friendly competition, (note the recent Asian Cup; Iraq vs. Saudi Arabia, no violence there) we come together. The differences being, we are not divided by our nationalities and we do it 24-7, and on a personal level.

We are a community without borders and without colours, the spirit and diversity of the gaming community is one that should be looked up to, a spirit and diversity other groups should strive toward.
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Apparently Georgia has tried to sue for a cease fire, which president Saakashvili has stated was their way of ensuring that future generations of Georgians don't hate Russians! The Russians refused it. He also stressed that the Georgian military was still able to fight, mostly because the Russians weren't doing anything to inflict causalities on the military but only residential, civilian areas.

Also hilariously he pointed out that Georgia has shot down numerous aircraft with "not exactly state of the art Georgian anti-air defense" (close paraphrase because I am bad at quoting) owing to the fact that there are so many Russian aircraft over Tblisi that it is like shooting fish in a barrel.

So now what? It seems like Georgia is trying to end the conflict because the Russians do irreparable damage to Russian-Georgian relations and are agreeing to return to pre-war borders, and the Russians aren't having it! It is getting harder and harder to side with the Russians.
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I've been trying to come up with a decent post for a while now, but there isn't much we can do besides watch as this gets worse and worse. we've got a lot of news since this started, and apparently there really are no good guys in this conflict! when this started I was more agaisnt Russia because of all the shit they did to Georgians leading up to this war, but georgia has done some really terrible stuff since then. there's no way this is going to end well for anyone.
can you stop making such dramatic reactionary posts ALL THE TIME, it's really annoying! and your idealistic liberation and pro-Russian shit is just as bad as the pro-georgian stuff Marmot countered earlier.

I would also ask you to stop trolling every topic I post in looking for anything I post.


heh.... look at him posting dramatically about a f*cking war... what a tool.... heh.....


I don't really give a shit if you find it annoying, I'm simply looking at the facts and seeing Russia being goaded into this war by the Georgians who are doing everything short of an ethnic cleansing in South Osettia. But I guess when you're taught your entire life RUSSIA IS EVIL PUTIN IS EVIL BEWARE RUSSIA.

but then again sorry bro we should be all chill here when discussing important things like wars, remember the answer is always somewhere in the middle- stan marsh 2002 dont take sides you only will get laughed at hehhhh......
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7554507.stm
Russia moves into Georgia from Abkhazia
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Yeah, I saw that article just before! Georgia has withdrawn troops back to defend the capital after Gori got attacked (although apparently they just packed up and left when they saw the Russians).

I could've believed that maybe the Russians actually wanted to protect South Ossetia at first (maybe) but it's pretty obvious they're just using the original spark as an excuse.

Truth - if the Russians were trying to protect their interests and they've made all the Georgians retreat then why are they advancing and bombing futher inside Georgia? I'm not trying to rile you up, I'm just curious as to whether you still think it's Russians defending their interests or not. They might have been pushed into it at first, but they're certainly not trying to get out of it (considering there's a signed ceasefire waiting for them).
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I would also ask you to stop trolling every topic I post in looking for anything I post.


heh.... look at him posting dramatically about a f*cking war... what a tool.... heh.....


I don't really give a shit if you find it annoying, I'm simply looking at the facts and seeing Russia being goaded into this war by the Georgians who are doing everything short of an ethnic cleansing in South Osettia. But I guess when you're taught your entire life RUSSIA IS EVIL PUTIN IS EVIL BEWARE RUSSIA.

but then again sorry bro we should be all chill here when discussing important things like wars, remember the answer is always somewhere in the middle- stan marsh 2002 dont take sides you only will get laughed at hehhhh......
alright well how about i'm telling you to stop it, then.  i don't think anyone gives a shit if you are a dick/flaming/whatever else because we all do that shit and GETTING PASSIONATE/DRAMATIC isn't a big deal, but your recent posts in topics like these have been beyond condescending and really just incredibly obnoxious to read.  not in a funny, well-informed, and generally OH YOU'RE SUCH A BITCH way like maybe steel would do it in where it'd be sort of tolerable by virtue of the post being correct/kind of funny, but just in a really annoying way.  it's odd, because given all of the laughably dumb shit you've said/believed/bought into in the RELATIVELY RECENT PAST, you are literally just about the last person on earth who should be coming in and acting in such a smug, condescending, insufferable manner towards people who, in all honesty, are pretty intelligent.  it is very reminiscent of safari coming back after a year in college of whatever and proceeding to lecture everyone around him about philosophy, which, considering how much you hate him, i find to be pretty ironic.

but yeah, don't make posts like this anymore.  i don't care if you don't give a shit; i give a shit.  i'm just going to start deleting them or something, because they are ridiculously distracting and regularly start stupid petty off-topic arguments, and kind of just piss everyone the fuck off, and not because you are TOTALLY CORRECT and no one wants to admit it, but mostly because you are being a twat.  it is not cute or funny or endearing or even tolerable, so yeah, just stop please.
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I would also ask you to stop trolling every topic I post in looking for anything I post.


heh.... look at him posting dramatically about a f*cking war... what a tool.... heh.....

Me posting in a thread I've been extremely active in?? whod expect that


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I'm simply looking at the facts and seeing Russia being goaded into this war by the Georgians who are doing everything short of an ethnic cleansing in South Osettia. But I guess when you're taught your entire life RUSSIA IS EVIL PUTIN IS EVIL BEWARE RUSSIA.

but then again sorry bro we should be all chill here when discussing important things like wars, remember the answer is always somewhere in the middle- stan marsh 2002 dont take sides you only will get laughed at hehhhh......
dude take a look at the georgian-russian relations link kaworu posted, Russia has done a lot of the same shit you're using as a BATTLECRY against Georgia. this isn't about stayin neutral, it's just that you absolutely cannot treat Russia as LIBERATORS in this conflict with all the terrible things they've done/continue to do to Georgians.

saying russia was pushed into this war isn't really true and kinda obnoxious, with how much they've been tryin to start trouble w/ georgia for some time now. they were forced to act but come on, it's not like they didn't want to

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So...isn't Russia using just a tad bit of excessive force now?
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alright well how about i'm telling you to stop it, then.  i don't think anyone gives a shit if you are a dick/flaming/whatever else because we all do that shit and GETTING PASSIONATE/DRAMATIC isn't a big deal, but your recent posts in topics like these have been beyond condescending and really just incredibly obnoxious to read.  not in a funny, well-informed, and generally OH YOU'RE SUCH A BITCH way like maybe steel would do it in where it'd be sort of tolerable by virtue of the post being correct/kind of funny, but just in a really annoying way.  it's odd, because given all of the laughably dumb shit you've said/believed/bought into in the RELATIVELY RECENT PAST, you are literally just about the last person on earth who should be coming in and acting in such a smug, condescending, insufferable manner towards people who, in all honesty, are pretty intelligent.  it is very reminiscent of safari coming back after a year in college of whatever and proceeding to lecture everyone around him about philosophy, which, considering how much you hate him, i find to be pretty ironic.

but yeah, don't make posts like this anymore.  i don't care if you don't give a shit; i give a shit.  i'm just going to start deleting them or something, because they are ridiculously distracting and regularly start stupid petty off-topic arguments, and kind of just piss everyone the fuck off, and not because you are TOTALLY CORRECT and no one wants to admit it, but mostly because you are being a twat.  it is not cute or funny or endearing or even tolerable, so yeah, just stop please.

this is pretty ironic coming from you because this entire post is just as condescending as anything i've had to say in the past week. You are mis-categorizing the things I have said as being holier than though because they are not at all. There was an amazing amount of misinformation/shitposts in this thread. Every post was either "oh no this is bad" or "How can russia attack them?" until the last page or so. Your argument seems pretty superflous in a lot of ways, how are my posts more distracting than others posts? Jeff's post was pretty "condescending" (if feeling strongly on a subject and telling others you think they are wrong is condescending) and started somewhat of a tangent, however I don't see you getting angry with his post. In fact my post barely veered the topic off course, what four or five posts discussing what I said is now taken to be derailing a topic.

Somehow I think the only reason you are so angry about my posts is because you see me as some sort of hypocrite which is hilarious because I would say that you are probably also a very different person than you were say two years ago. (Should you be lecturing about how play world of warcraft too much is a stupid thing to do when one year ago you were the poster child for it? Absolutely you are probably the best person to speak of that). I would also go so far to say that my posts have been much less malicious and condescending than anything steel said to me in topics before.

So for real, lay off.
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nah that's not condescending at all it is just blunt//straightforward.  you see the difference is that i am not talking to you like you are some kind of idiotic child.  i'm not really gonna argue with you about this, though, because i don't care if you want to acknowledge it or not despite the fact that you've been told the same thing multiple times by very different people as long as you don't do it anymore.  however!!  i don't see you as a hypocrite (why would you think this??) and going by that wow parallel i am guessing you mean that as a former stupid conservative you would be in the best position to talk about the faults with this kind of stuff, and i wouldn't disagree, but unlike render i am actually referring to how you are posting and not the content, which, trust me (us) ok, is way way worse than steel ever was, and also totally out of line and presumptuous in this context, whereas he is usually only even like that when people are being really tremendously dumb!
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Is your e-credz really so important that you have to start shitting this topic? Just take his advice and stop, you already know he's not the only person bothered by it and you are just causing this to go way off-topic so stop looking for a meaningless argument. Jesus.

edit: seems like g@ypanda made it before me..
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Jeff's post was pretty "condescending" (if feeling strongly on a subject and telling others you think they are wrong is condescending)
What? How was my post condescending. Nowhere in my post did I tell anyone they were wrong, I was meaning for it to be educational about the situation because the people on IRC, including a bunch of politically savvy and smart people, were not aware of the general reasons for conflict in the region. I don't see what your issue with my post is anyway, you like to dress it up in pretty words with strong political connotations but it all comes down to competition over the resources in this region and each side trying to pressure the others, some more strongly and with military force, but the same principle applies. I don't know where you get your information but it would seem that your sources are likely slanted if they mention the same fervor as you took in your post. My sources are from professors of European politics and Russian history in classes i have taken on the subject, people who I have accused at times of being liberally-slanted themselves and yet they STILL would agree with the summary I gave in my post but okay, I must be wrong because I am the "resident republican" right? Because that is all I really draw from your post and that is what people are pointing out is condescending. You have taken no regard for the information I presented and don't seem to even realize that some of the political maneuvering you mentioned is as a direct result of things I mentioned but if you want to go on ignoring these things under the facade of "I don't care what people think of me blah blah" then go for it, but if you do then you need to stop implying that I am ignorant.
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War over?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7557457.stm


Still arguing about the details of the treaty though.
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I definitely don't think this will be the last we hear about this - no doubt there will be a war of words going on for the next few days.

Still, at least the fighting has stopped.
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It seems its not quite over yet.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/georgia_russia
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Jesus Christ. They obviously don't even care at all about the PR angle of this thing.

That’s right, you have the young gaming with the old(er), white people gaming with black people, men and women, Asian countries gaming with the EU, North Americans gaming with South Americans. Much like world sporting events like the Wolrd Cup, or the Olympics will bring together different nations in friendly competition, (note the recent Asian Cup; Iraq vs. Saudi Arabia, no violence there) we come together. The differences being, we are not divided by our nationalities and we do it 24-7, and on a personal level.

We are a community without borders and without colours, the spirit and diversity of the gaming community is one that should be looked up to, a spirit and diversity other groups should strive toward.